Lubbock Police are searching for a person of interest in an afternoon shooting.

The man, Terrence Essex, is a black man. He stands approximately six feet tall, and weighs about 200 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white muscle shirt and blue jeans.

He is wanted for questioning in the central Lubbock shooting of a seventeen year old, just before three o'clock Monday afternoon. The crime happened at 528 42nd Street. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen, and apparently collapsed 523 43rd Street.

EMS took the victim to University Medical Center with life threatening injuries. At last report late this afternoon, he was undergoing surgery.